In the world of High School Musical, breaking into spontaneous, well-choreographed song and dance numbers is part of puberty, just like acne, voice changes, and the realisation that sex might be awesome. This explains even the anti-singing characters (such as Chad) breaking into song unexpectedly, and why none of the adults sing. The adults either have a Weirdness Censor that makes them ignore the kids' performances, or just politely avoid calling attention to it, much as one wouldn't mention a teenager's acne. The kids who deride Troy and Gabriella for sacrificing their other interests for singing just think that it's embarrassing, because it's calling attention to aspects of teenager-hood that everyone just wants to ignore.

So the "High School Musical" in the third movie was the equivalent of a theater instructor in our world putting on a show called "Senior Year: Tampons and Wet Dreams"? Darbus is edgy.

More like "Senior Year: Zits and Dandruff." Still gross but not as risque.

This entry is now headcanon!

The films were intended as a parody.

They were going to be an loving parody of tween-Disney, with all the random moments, intentionally bad acting, effects, singing the works. However, an excecutive worked out the how MUCH they could make from this and all of the parody was removed and the story was rebuild to have coherent plot, good acting, and good singing.

Just imagine them as friends rather than siblings living in the Pokémon world.

Ryan is gay, but he's not in the closet.

Many assume Transparent Closet. However, he isn't in the closet. It just never comes up in conversation during the movie. Judging by the way he dresses, he's comfortable enough to have come to terms with it, so he doesn't feel the need to talk to somebody about it, and for reasons unknown, he might just not be interested in a relationship (or could be the only out kid at his high school).

Ryan is bisexual.

He's a really, really femme guy, but that has nothing to do with his orientation. This is why he's able to have so much Ho Yay with Chad while also being in relationships with Martha and Kelsi.

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